The NBA had a busy weekend; there were the five games on Christmas Day–the Bulls and Knicks were Christmas-y, Kobe managed only 7 points against the Heat and Durant dropped 44 on the Nuggets. But all of that takes a back seat to Blake Griffin, whose “rookie” season has just been a long glorious highlight reel.

Blake Griffin and the Clippers took down the Suns last night, simultaneously ending a 9-game skid and creating a skid in my pants after watching this sick one-handed alley-oop dunk. Soon there will be Blake Griffin dunks and everyone else’s dunks, which will be more expensive and taste like cardboard and come with small toys that make America’s children fat. That’s a world I’m comfortable living with.

This video, after the jump, has been everywhere today, and in the cartel that has become sports blogging, that means that we should probably post it, too. It’s “Bango,” the curiously-named mascot for the Milwaukee Bucks, climbing a ladder and then, I guess, executing a dunk. I mean, it’s not like you can tell. For some reason the only footage of this “amazing stunt” was shot from Green Bay.

And never mind that, because of the ladder and the backboard in the arena, only about 40 percent of the people in the arena could “see” this. Don’t tell me this wouldn’t have been a better video if Bango had just done an Owen Hart right off the ladder. Maybe next year, Milwaukee. Maybe next year. Read the rest of this entry »

Dwyane Wade’s in the walk year of his deal with the Miami Heat, which is good news for us, because that gives us more hope of seeing more plays like this one, where Wade drives the lane against Cleveland and absolutely murders the Cavs’ Anderson Varejao. It’s a stunning display of ownage [vid's after the jump]; I think Wade called the Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo native “Toby” as he stepped over him. And then after the game Wade walked right into Varejao’s house and drank his milk straight from the carton. I hate it when people do that. –Skeets Don’t Lie. Read the rest of this entry »

It's nice to see LeBron James' latest Nike commercial hit the tubes the day following a particularly disastrous performance in Game 1 of the Cavs' second round series against the Celtics. Awful Announcing was kind enough to upload the ad, which has witness sketches of LeBron looking like Jesus, a homeless person, homeless Jesus, Sub Zero, the prophet Muhammad, Rasheed Wallace, Joakim Noah, Mohamed Atta, Kevin Duckworth and Mushmouth. These strike me as very poor witnesses indeed. This is at best circumstantial evidence AND IT will never hold up in court.